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- <text id=94CT1169><title>Qatar—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Qatar<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Middle East, peninsula jutting into the central Persian Gulf, between Iran and Saudi Arabia
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 11,000 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 11,000 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly smaller than Connecticut
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> total 60 km, Saudi Arabia 60 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 563 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>continental shelf:</hi> not specified
- <item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive economic zone:</hi> 200 nm
- <item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 12 nm
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- <item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> territorial dispute with Bahrain over the Hawar Islands; maritime boundary with Bahrain
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> desert; hot, dry; humid and sultry in summer
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> mostly flat and barren desert covered with loose sand and gravel
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> petroleum, natural gas, fish
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 5%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 95%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> NA sq km
- <item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> limited freshwater resources are increasing dependence on large-scale desalination facilities
- <item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> haze, dust storms, sandstorms common
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> signed, but not ratified—Biodiversity, Law of the Sea
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- <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> strategic location in central Persian Gulf near major petroleum deposits
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